Tekijä: | Anderson, A. Dodd, S.D. Jack, S. |
Otsikko: | Aggressors; winners; victims and outsiders: European schools' social construction of the entrepreneur |
Lehti: | International Small Business Journal
2009 : FEB, VOL. 27:1, p. 126-136 |
Asiasana: | entrepreneurship education Europe |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | This article deals with how people in the European schools' environment (here as: E-s-e.) understand entrepreneurship, by using the metaphors employed by them to describe entrepreneurs. It is found that across the E-s-e., the entrepreneur (here as: entpr.) is a conflicted social archetype, simultaneously perceived as an aggressor and a winner, a victim and an outsider. There is found most transnational homogeneity existing in relation to the perception of the entpr. as a predatory aggressor, while positive constructions of the entpr. were more likely to be diverse btw. the six studied countries: Cyprus, Eire, Greece, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom (U.K.). The social constructions within E-s-e. must be taken seriously if enterprise education is to be effective. |
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